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West Palm Beach or York?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

West Palm BeachYork
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 88 points.88
West Palm BeachYork
Score880
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km102
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. York leads by 17 points.17
West Palm BeachYork
Score3754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre262361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1431
Museums & heritage. York leads by 29 points.29
West Palm BeachYork
Score1746
Museums within 10 km518
Museums within 2 km of centre316
Share of museums within 2 km %6089
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. York leads by 23 points.23
West Palm BeachYork
Score2043
Drinking venues within 4 km132450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre90353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6878
Nightclubs within 4 km1014
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 36 points.36
West Palm BeachYork
Score6933
Protected land share 50 km %1517
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %4595
Park area within 2 km34 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 22 points.22
West Palm BeachYork
Score2143
Tourist attractions within 2 km313
Park area within 2 km34 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. York leads by 27 points.27
West Palm BeachYork
Score1239
Notable places within 2 km837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. York leads by 11 points.11
West Palm BeachYork
Score4354
Price level global10084.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 19 points.19
West Palm BeachYork
Score7556
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 32.5 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 217 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromWest Palm BeachYork
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 35 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BridgetownBGI
3 h 45 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 40 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DublinDUB
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 105 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureWest Palm BeachYork
Official languageEnglish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureWest Palm BeachYork
City population117,415208,400
People per km²786766
Museums within 10 km424
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre1854
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.